The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday ordered the release on bail of jailed opposition leader Javed Hashmi pending his appeal of his 2004 conviction for allegedly inciting mutiny in the armed forces, forgery and...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard Friday rejected calls for an independent judicial inquiry into the Australian government's handling of the terror case against Dr. Mohammad Haneef , calling it a political "stunt" by opposition...

Chilean authorities on Thursday announced the capture of former Gen. Raul Iturriaga Neumann, a former high-ranking intelligence official with the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) during the reign of former dictator Augusto Pinochet ....

China is increasing its control over human rights activists and other political dissidents ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympics , Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday. HRW says that leaders in the Communist Party...

A senior Thai Justice Ministry official said Thursday that Thailand will renew a probe into the anti-drug campaign of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra during which close to 2,500 people were killed. Thaksin's...

A military court-martial jury Thursday found US Marine Corps Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III guilty of murder for his role in the April 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania [USMC...

The US Senate voted 83-14 in favor of a new ethics bill that will require congressmen and other officials to make public additional information about money involving personal projects and lobbies. The legislation also...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held Thursday that insurance policies held by many victims of Hurricane Katrina did not cover flood damage caused by the storm. Writing for...

Chinese Communist Party discipline commission spokesman Gan Yisheng said Thursday that China's use of capital punishment in political and economic corruption cases is appropriate and effective. Gan justified the punishment saying that it had "been endorsed by the Chinese...

The Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice Wednesday suspended an order issued by the government's telecommunication commission requiring Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) to register as a "national audiovisual production service" or face...